User:Maschen/wave function
- Crude provisional section ordering of wave function
Status of wavefunctions
[edit ]History, first introduction of concept, modern interpretations
In the postulates of QM
[edit ]Some (not all) of the postulates of QM are: Wavefunction contains all information about system, governed by the SE, wavefunction collapse
Wave functions in nonrelativistic QM
[edit ]Interpretations
[edit ]probability interpretation
mention others, hint a forward reference to the field theoretical formulation
Wave particle duality
[edit ]Intuitive heuristics about the De Broglie relations and wave profile
Position and momentum representations
[edit ]Position and momentum space wavefunctions, Fourier transforms
Spin
[edit ]spin s particle in 3d, 2s+1 complex numbers, or a 2s+1 column vector, wavefunctions as spinors or tensors for particles, occurrence in relativistic QM and QFT
Other observables
[edit ]Many particle systems
[edit ]symmetry (bosons), antisymmetry (fermions), nonsymmetry (distinguishable), The Pauli principle, implications from them
Beyond nonrelativistic QM
[edit ]Relativistic quantum mechanics
[edit ]Field operators in quantum field theory
[edit ]brief discussion of advantages of field operators, point to QFT articles
non relativistic then relativistic field theory
Examples
[edit ]SUMMARIZE
Prototypical examples in physics
[edit ]Potential well, harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom
Chemistry
[edit ]Atomic and molecular orbitals
In particle physics
[edit ]wave function of quarks, leptons
In nuclear physics
[edit ]In condensed matter physics
[edit ]Ontology
[edit ](use what is in current article)